Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 08/01/05 16:25

bunch92@yahoo.fr wrote:
> dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> wrote in
> news:BF13A374.151EC%dorayme@optusnet.com.au:
>
>
>>Amazing how well this works! Never mind the majority of the code at
>>http://70.84.175.210/~perigno/testwav.html, does anyone have a browser
>>(where they have not turned off relevant preferences or options and do
>>not play background music like Spacegirl) that does not play the wav
>>file with the embed. Works well in all my browsers, not just IE.
>>
>>dorayme
>>
>
>
> Yes dorayme, WAV works great.
>
> But because of download time problems, I thought it would have been nice
> to have an MP3 option to work EXACTLY the same way.
>
> I thought I would be able to use ..<embed>.. or ...<object><parameter
> autoplay>... but as you can see, my testpage doen't work :
> http://www.perignon.co.uk/testmp3.html

The usual hack is:
(note: not html 4.01 strict!!)

<object ...>
<param name="src" value="some.mp3">

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